"The Book of Minimal Stories'' was prepared by ''The Museum of Broken Hearts'' eTwinning project students collaboratively.
LAST TRAIN HOME
The train moved on its tracks, slowly, but surely making its way towards wherever it was headed. The sound of rain and the groans from the people in the train mixed together in such harmony that one would have a hard time not feeling soothed by it. The people in the train mattered not. Even if they had mattered in the past, they didn’t now and wouldn’t anymore. The destination mattered not as well. Because what could they change if they knew where they were headed? What could we, the observers change? These people, or now, silhouettes, didn’t bother to look at each other. What united them in such a way, was soon going to separate them. The train stopped on its tracks and the gate behind them closed. What would happen after mattered not. This was their last train home.
One way, or another.
Ömer Eren Y.
Kabataş Erkek High School, Group 1
Teacher: Emine Türk Bostancı
"It's time for one of us to leave this world, either for you or me." said the woman to the man who has been a burden to her for years.
Hazal S.
Kabataş Erkek High School, Group 1
Teacher: Emine Türk Bostancı
It was a cold dark night. I was running on the street, faster than a cheetah. After a while I heard her shouting “Come back here you monster!” I ran even faster. I knew, if she caught me, I would be done for.
Zeynep Ç.
Kabataş Erkek High School, Group 1 Teacher: Emine Türk Bostancı
ALIVE
I remember the feeling of the warm wind hitting my face, at the top of the building, thanking for everything I went through. Did I really deserve to suffer this much? I didn't know, but I didn't care anyway. I had no intention of living. I was going to do this, finally, end my pain.
I heard the sound of the crowd from below, looked at them nonchalantly, and made myself stand up. Without a doubt, I jumped from the building. I felt so alive and relaxed and I can't complain but then everything went blur.
~~~~~~~~
I heard someone saying "she’s here".
Seriously? Am I alive?
Feyza T.
Kabatas Erkek High School, Group 1
Teacher: Emine Türk Bostancı
The Start of The Journey
It was a long night with hard decisions but at the end these five close friends all agreed that the journey must begin.
Arda Ö.
Kabataş Erkek High School Group 2
Teacher: Reyhan Tavşanoğlu
Mysterious Bakery
The weather was freezing. Joe got out of the house and started to walk to the bakery. He went in and said:
He went out of the bakery and started to eat his pastries. Then suddenly he felt pain in his stomach. He thought it was from the pastry but when he turned back to the bakery, there was nothing in there.
Can A.
Kabataş Erkek High School Group 2
Teacher: Reyhan Tavşanoğlu
The little girl released her red balloon to the sky, the only gift given by his father and said, “Now you can go.”
Deniz İpek Ç.
Kabataş High School Group 2
Teacher: Reyhan Tavşanoğlu
The detective turned to Watson and said happily “Like you said Watson, it was twins.”.
Efehan M.
Kabataş Erkek High School Group 2
Teacher: Reyhan Tavşanoğlu
I woke up with an urge to travel. I got my car keys and hopped in my car. I drove aimlessly, but even I didn't know where I wanted to go. It was a feeling like I needed to be somewhere, But I didn't know where. Finally, I stopped in front of a thick forest. I got out of my car and could not resist the call of the forest.
Esat I.
Kabatas Erkek High School Group 1
Teacher: Emine Türk Bostancı
"I need you to open your back” he said. "Please cough now, so I can-" He suddenly stopped. "Oh, it's a really old bruise of mine. From my childhood." she said. He immediately opened his left inner arm and showed the same bruise. She was frozen now. "Once I fought with a dog, with my..." She continued: "Sister."
Zeynep A.
Kabataş Erkek High School Group 2
Teacher: Reyhan Tavşanoğlu
DEAD BODIES
I woke up one morning in my cold dormitory full of hard beds I shared with people I knew and did not know. Today is the anniversary of my development here. But the reason today is different: The creatures that come here and plead to God will disturb me too.
Ada G.
Besiktas Atatürk Anatolian High School, Group 1
Teacher: Fatma Boztepe
LONELINESS
Do you think it will be quiet when you are alone? The real noise will start in your mind when you are alone.
Beril Ö.
Beşiktaş Atatürk Anatollian High School, Group 1
Teacher: Fatma Boztepe
WELCOME TO US
One night, she came home and she was very tired so, she decided to sleep. When she looked through the window, she saw a man who was dressed in black and she heard some voices on the way to bedroom but she didn’t care. Then she slept. When she woke up, she saw a lot of people in her house. They saw her and said:
- Welcome to us!
She was very scared.
- What are you doing in my house? If you don’t leave my house, I’ll call the cops!
Then they said:
- Your house? Are you kidding us? The dead live where they die.
Beyzanur E.
Beşiktaş Atatürk Anatolian High School, Group 1
Teacher: Fatma Boztepe
STRAWBERRY
“Baby, did you see my lip balm?”
“Yeah, here it is.”
“This is strawberry flavored.”
“Yes, your favourite.”
“I can’t have used it. I am allergic to strawberry.”
Defne A.
Beşiktaş Atatürk Anatolian High School, Group 1
Teacher: Fatma Boztepe
The New Patient
The nurse came. She apologized for being late to today’s book reading. Why was she apologizing though? They have been telling the same story to patients for years. A true love story, whose real life heroes are unknown, that has been the topic of movies and books. She was going to start telling the story for the thousandth time when a new patient entered the nursing home. The nurse went upstairs to help him for bath time. She saw the birthmark on his hip. “You, you… you are him!”
Defne D.
Besiktas Ataturk Anatolian High School, Group 1
Teacher: Fatma Boztepe
I came home, I went to my room and opened my diary started to write what I had experienced that day. My mother passed by the door and asked what I was doing, I said I wrote my diary. Then she called me to eat lunch. After I ate my lunch I came back to my room. But my diary was empty. I was sure I wrote something. And then I searched the house and there was nobody at home and my diary was all empty.
Yağmur E.
Besiktas Ataturk Anatolian High School, Group 1
Teacher: Fatma Boztepe
The Disappointment
He sat to the bench where he always sat after his daily walk. Today there was another visitor. A visitor he had never seen before... She looked like she was crying. He asked:
—Do you have a problem?
—Yes, but you won’t understand that feeling.
—Which feeling?
—The feeling that happens when you disappoint someone you love more than yourself.
The feeling of disappointing someone. Someone who he loves more than himself. He stood up. He left, saying he had to go home.
Yağmur S.
Beşiktaş Atatürk Anatolian High School, Group 1
Teacher: Fatma Boztepe
FAULTS
She was out of breath. She couldn’t hear the footsteps anymore so finally she dared to look back. She slowed down and entered an alley. She was full of questions. She thought about the things that she did.
“You are disgusting!”
“Can you call yourself a human?”
“Don’t you have any conscience?”
“ You are not a human but a monster!”
Those words repeated themselves in her mind. But she didn’t even regret or feel sorry.
Zehra Nur S.
Beşiktaş Atatürk Anatolian High School, Group 1
Teacher: Fatma Boztepe
Last Minute Value
Wanting to take his last minutes to himself, the old man went to a park and silently watched the laughter of the children. As the old man watched them with a small smile on his face, the kittens began to come near him.
He wanted to feed these little ones with the last money he had. And he turned to them and asked the cat drinking milk:
-Why did i start to realize the value of life in my last minutes, kitty?
-Meow!
After saying that ‘’You are right, too’’, he looked at the park and the kittens for the last time with sad eyes and took his way home. He wanted to get away from here immediately because he knew that seeing these beauties at this age would sadden him.
Dilara Sema G.
Tes-iş Adapazarı Anatolian High School
Teacher: Vesile Uslu
Greta and Kurt
Greta and Kurt had a normal breakfast. The atmosphere in the room was a bit cold because of the thing that took place over a year ago. They still hadn't made up. Kurt casually got up, thanked Greta for the pancakes and left to go shopping and never came back.
Alp K.
Beşiktaş Atatürk Anatolian Highschool, Group 2
Teacher: Yasemin Cevizci
Strangers Cell Phone
He looked into his pocket on the way home from school. He could not see his phone in his pocket. He became concerned and asked a stranger for his phone to call his mother. The stranger's phone was very similar to his own.
Ayşe G.
Beşiktaş Atatürk Anatolian High School, Group 2
Teacher: Yasemin Cevizci
THE TEDDY BEAR
There was a dirty teddy bear, on top of a pile of debris and rubble, in a town where no building stood tall anymore.
Defne Zeren Y.
Beşiktaş Atatürk Anatolian High School Group 2
Teacher: Yasemin Cevizci
IS THIS A JOKE ?
Manhattan life that everyone would want to have, at the top of it, a 17-year-old boy. He faced with the reality of his father's death and attended his funeral a few years ago. One day, while reaching for his coffee at the table, he saw an envelope under the pile of papers. It was a secret photograph of his father and his lawyers. He looked at the picture but then realized... There was a calendar page in the picture. But the date, the date belonged to just a couple of days ago.
Dicle C.
Besiktas Ataturk Anatolian High School, Group 2
Teacher: Yasemin Cevizci
UNKNOWN IMPULSE
Suddenly, he felt an impulse and quietly opened his eyes. He looked at the clock on his phone while he was thinking about what woke him up. At that moment, a message notification came to him. That message was from his ex who he still couldn’t forget. Just after that, he felt hungry and he decided to give priority to eating. As he left his room to go to the kitchen, he noticed the money stacks on the bedside table by the door. The lips on his sleepy face made silent grunts that showed he was surprised. His tummy rumbled and he came to the kitchen. There was a tray of his favorite pastries on the kitchen table. He couldn't stop himself and he tasted it all. He realized that he was in his bed while the morning alarm was ringing. He didn’t know when he came to his bed. He rushed into the kitchen to make sense of somethings and he came across a plateful of pastry made by his mother. He quickly went to check his phone's notifications.
Emine S.
Besiktas Ataturk Anatolian High School, Group 2
Teacher: Yasemin Cevizci
THE CHOCOLATE CAKE
It was afternoon and she made a chocolate cake with her friend. Cake was for the guests. The guests loved it and wanted the recipe of the cake. She was really proud of her dessert. After the guests and her friend left, she saw a chocolate cake in the bin.
Işık Devrim T.
School: Beşiktaş Atatürk Anatolian High School , Group 2
Teacher: Yasemin Cevizci
My Daughter’s Birthday
I was looking at charming shop windows. A man who had dark hair and looked exhausted was staring at me. He came near and asked, “Pardon madam, where can I buy flowers for my daughter? If she had been alive, she would have been 22 today.” I replied to him, “My condolences.” The man repeated and pointed to the flowers in my hand. I said “ Oh, I don’t know, they’re my birthday gift.
Pelin E.
Besiktas Ataturk Anatolian High School, Group 2
Teacher: Yasemin Cevizci
MY CHILDHOOD
Charles came back from school in a big hurry. He had very important news to tell his mother. But the nextdoor neighbour opened the door in tears.
‘Where’s my mom?’ he asked.
Cennet Y.
Bodrum Vocational and Technical High School
Teacher: Asude Örnekler
THE LOST GIRL
Once upon a time a young girl and her mother went to the forest to pick some berries for her father who worked very hard. The forest greeted them with a gold and gloomy silence.
She wanted to collect more and more. Although the mother advised her not to go far, she disappeared in the shadow. Where could she be? Emily, Emily she shouted….
Elif T.
Bodrum Vocational and Technical High School
Teacher: Asude Örnekler
THE SECRET PURSE
Nichole was living in an old house together with her parents and sister. They had a very hard life. Her father was working in temporary jobs. Sometimes he was coming home empty-handed.
One evening she came closer to her father and asked in fear: ‘ Dad, today my teacher asked when I ‘d buy the coursebook again.’
He looked sadly from the window of the room.
Hasan İ.
Bodrum Vocational and Technical High School
Teacher: Asude Örnekler
THE BLACK TRAIN
It was rainy and gloomy.The young woman had been waiting at the train station for 5 hours, but the train had not come yet. What could have happened? Her husband did not reply her calls. She was in a deep worry. There it was…Yes it was coming. Was he inside?
Orkun B.
Bodrum Vocational and Technical High School
Teacher: Asude Örnekler
THE LOST WALLET
Eric was excited this morning. He wanted to play with his best friend Marc. So he finished everything on his plate so that her mother would give permission to invite Marc at his home. She said “okey, but you should be careful” “Ok , mom I will”, he promised.
The mother went shopping for the boys and put her wallet on the coffee table after she came. She started to prepare cookies for the boys.
Eric went to his room to take more toys. They played, laughed and ate cookies. After Marc went, the mother couldn’t find her wallet on the coffee table. And she said “Eric, this is the third time it happens. What are we going to do?” Marc was Eric’s best friend.
Songül K.
Bodrum Vocational and Technical High School
Teacher: Asude Örnekler
He sold his house before going to war and left.
Abide D.
Zübeyde Hanım Vocational and Technical High School
Teacher: Ayşe Şanlı Appak
The woman took off her wig and watched the sunset last time..
Ceylin A.
Zübeyde Hanım Vocational and Technical High School
Teacher: Ayşe Şanlı Appak
He thinks he is swimming in the ocean while he is crawling in the desert.
Ecenaz G.
Zübeyde Hanım Vocational and Technical High School
Teacher: Ayşe Şanlı Appak
Mum fondles his son, looks at her watch, takes his son to his bed and watches his son sleeping.
Her husband comes home from his shift, mum goes on.
Mustafa O.
Zübeyde Hanım Vocational and Technical High School
Teacher: Ayşe Şanlı Appak
The Surprise
………..The door is knocking, Elif, look at the door, my daughter.
- OK.
- Here you are.
- Good day, there is a package for you.
- I'll take it. Thank you.
- Who is it, girl?
-Cargo, a package has arrived.
- What is it, big sister, open it?
- I wondered what could it be…………………………..
Ayşe A.
Erdemli Borsa İstanbul Science High School
Teacher: Eda Ekşioğlu
The Bride
“Darling, are you ready for the wedding?”
“Yes love, I just need to put my sport shoes on.”
Ayşegül
Erdemli Borsa İstanbul Science High School
Teacher: Eda Ekşioğlu
Cycle of Punishment
There was once a king who ruled his lands with fear. In those lands, there was no one alive that is not terrified of him. And because he was a king, he would use his servant to do all his bad deeds.
In the dining halls of the castle, if someone is chewing their meal too loud, the servant would beat that person to death. And if someone is not even chewing their meal, the servant would also beat that person to death. That was how the system worked.
One day, in one of those halls, the king sat at the table with his servant. And only one of them got up on their own from this table, where the two were sitting.
The other, unfortunately, needed the grim reaper's help to get up.
When the grim reaper took the servant away from his body and the table, he said “Your punishment in hell is over, now let’s take you to your heaven.”
And while pointing the king, who is looking at the servant’s dead body with disgust in his eyes, reaper continued: “Where you will be this king in your new life.”
Yunus Emre
Erdemli Borsa İstanbul Science High School
Teacher: Eda Ekşioğlu
Sokol, an old sick horse, lies dying. His only company are the hunting dogs he used to run with, but they don't stay with him long. His nights are solitary and frightening. His plaintive neighing goes unanswered. He longs to run one last time.
Ahmet U.
Besiktas Ataturk Anatolian High School, Group 3
Teacher: İnayet Çalışkan
He woke up to a perfect Sunday morning, then noticed that he was alone. He decided to get up and call his mom, but he unfortunately couldn’t find his phone, and he was sure that he left it right next to his bed before sleeping at night. Then he went downstairs to check the living room, no one was home so he decided to have breakfast while waiting for his mom and dad. While he was walking to the kitchen, he heard some noises coming from his room. How could that be possible? Wasn’t he in his room 5 minutes ago? He literally walked around the whole house, it was just him. He wasn’t sure about checking his room. Few minutes later, he was curious about those noises and started climbing the stairs, he was finally in his room, and he saw a piece of paper on his bed. He was kind of scared of that, but finally felt brave enough to take the paper. There was the word ‘hello’ written with fresh blood.
Ece Ö.
Beşiktaş Atatürk Anatolian High School, Group 3
Teacher: İnayet Çalışkan
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